Microsoft seems to be taking all the feedback on their selections of Games With Gold titles to heart as this month they have selected, what have to be considered some better offerings.

Form May 1st till the 15th, Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be able to download Dust: An Elysian Tail for free and then from May 16th till the end of the month, Xbox Live Gold members will be able to hit the streets of Saints Row: The Third. Dust is regularly $14.99 and the digital download version of Saints Row: The Third is normally $19.99 which isn’t a bad haul this month.

As it always is, once you download a free Games With Gold title, the game is yours to keep and can be re-downloaded again for free should you delete it because you need the disk space for example. Both titles are worth checking out if you have not yet played them on your Xbox 360.

Still no word on the possibility of some sort of Games With Gold offering for the Xbox One, although we continue to hear rumblings that Microsoft might have something in the works. So far there has been no official announcement, but if were one were to come at this point, we would guess that Microsoft would wait till their E3 presser to announce it.

Microsoft has confirmed what has become nearly an annual tradition on the Xbox 360: the Summer of Arcade. This year, the Summer of Arcade will start on July 18th and run till August 15th. Microsoft will be offering a 400 point credit to anyone who purchases three of the five Summer of Arcade titles.

The titles this year will be:

Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD – July 18th – 1,200 MSP / $15

Wreckateer – July 25th – 800 MSP / $10

Deadlight – August 1st – 1,200 MSP / $15

Hybrid – August 8th – 1,200 MSP / $15

Dust: An Elysian Tail – August 15th – 1,200 MSP / $15

As you can see, all except one title this year will set you back 1,200 Microsoft Points or $15 for those playing our home game. The only 800 Microsoft Point title, which is Wreckateer, is a Kinect title and had quite a good showing at the Microsoft E3 Press Conference. We expect that this might be the hidden gem of the bunch for those of you that are Kinect owners.

The rest of the titles are also looking pretty darn good, and Activision and developer Robomoto are banking heavily on the popularity of bringing back the new HD version of Tony Hawk Pro Skater. We are already hearing that extra content is coming in the form of additional maps for this one, and it is going to cost you more than the 1,200 Microsoft Points if you want to get all of the additional maps. It looks pretty good, however, and could finally breathe some new life into a franchise that has needed some help for a time.

The other titles also look really interesting, and early signs seem to suggest there is not a dog in the bunch. It appears that I will be dipping into my points again this summer to spend time playing these new titles.